On 2 Mar 2011 at 8:39, Allen Esterson wrote: > The article does not provide a link to the study. Nor is it cited on > Eric Anderson's University page: > http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/people/profiles/eanderson.htm >
This is it: Anderson E, Adams A, Rivers I.Arch Sex Behav. 2010 Oct 22. [Epub ahead of print] "I Kiss Them Because I Love Them": The Emergence of Heterosexual Men Kissing in British Institutes of Education. . Abstract In this article, we combined data from 145 interviews and three ethnographic investigations of heterosexual male students in the U.K. from multiple educational settings. Our results indicate that 89% have, at some point, kissed another male on the lips which they reported as being non-sexual: a means of expressing platonic affection among heterosexual friends. Moreover, 37% also reported engaging in sustained same-sex kissing, something they construed as non-sexual and non-homosexual. Although the students in our study understood that this type of kissing remains somewhat culturally symbolized as a taboo sexual behavior, they nonetheless reconstructed it, making it compatible with heteromasculinity by recoding it as homosocial. We hypothesize that both these types of kissing behaviors are increasingly permissible due to rapidly decreasing levels of cultural homophobia. Furthermore, we argue that there has been a loosening of the restricted physical and emotional boundaries of traditional heteromasculinity in these educational settings, something which may also gradually assist in the erosion of prevailing heterosexual hegemony. -------------------------------------------- Allen also gave us a vivid image of celebrating a score in soccer: > The scorer's > antics and other colleagues' celebrations have become absurd, players > typically jumping on the scorer who goes to ground. Occasionally a > player may rush up to the scorer and kiss the top of his head as he > grabs hold of him, but that is the exception, not the rule. To say > "exuberant kisses" often occur is just plain nonsense. Although this has little to do with the topic, I can't help but observe that the intensity of these celebrations may be due to their scarcity. Goal deprivation seems to be the norm in this strange game, perhaps unique among sports in having nil-nil outcomes (translation: nobody scores nuttin'). This seems to be a frequent outcome. According to one source, "Mostly soccer is just guys in shorts running around aimlessly, a metaphor for the meaninglessness of life". (http://tinyurl.com/pxtn4 ) [If soccer fans want to reach me, I'm changing my name and entering witness protection]. -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9141 or send a blank email to leave-9141-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
